Two studies using the methods of experimental psychology assessed the effects of two types
of text presentation (page-by-page vs. scrolling) on participants' performance while reading
and revising texts. Greater facilitative effects of the page-by-page presentation were
observed in both tasks. The participants' reading task performance indicated that they built a
better mental representation of the text as a whole and were better at locating relevant
information and remembering the main ideas. Their revising task performance indicated a …